Sardis Community Nursing Home

With an address in Sardis, Mississippi, Sardis Community Nursing Home is the only option we identified in the area. This nursing home turns out to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for our long-term care rating. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.34 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. Our nursing grade is based on many subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. Based on the data, it looks like this facility provides an impressive 3.9 hours per patient each day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. In computing our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the major datapoints we assessed, including minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

Turning to our last area, this nursing home did not fare very well. Due to a poor grade of F in this category, this is clearly its poorest area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. It looks like this nursing home was subpar in several staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 30.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.